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Diffstat (limited to 'Todo-5.6')
| -rw-r--r-- | Todo-5.6 | 32 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Unicode support autoload utf8_heavy.pl's swash routines in swash_init() autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow - (see also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous" ) + (see also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous") Multi-threading support "use Thread;" under useithreads @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ Configure timers, signals (the metaconfig units mostly already exist for these) UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO +Long doubles + figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least + in AIX and Tru64 (V5.0 and onwards) when using long doubles: see the + regexp tricks we had to insert to t/comp/use.t and t/lib/bigfltpm.t. + Locales deprecate traditional/legacy locales? figure out how to support Unicode locales @@ -58,7 +63,10 @@ Locales http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/index.html and check out also the Locale Converter: http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/localeconverter - locales across packages? + ICU has it all: locales and character sets, the 'iconv' seems to have + 'only' the character sets. Either would be valuable to get integrated + into Perl, Configure already probes for libiconv and <iconv.h>. + How do locales work across packages? Regexen make RE engine thread-safe @@ -74,6 +82,8 @@ Regexen Security use fchown, fchmod (and futimes?) internally when possible use fchdir(how portable?) + create secure reliable portable temporary file modules + audit the standard utilities for security problems and fix them Reliable Signals custom opcodes @@ -87,11 +97,23 @@ Win32 stuff Miscellaneous add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?) - sub-second sleep? alarm? time? (integrate Time::HiRes?) - floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc + sub-second sleep()? alarm()? time()? (integrate Time::HiRes? + Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but + the units exist) + floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc. + at least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(), + class(), isnan(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(), + fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround(), + ieeefp.h, fp_class.h. There are metaconfig units for all of these. + fix the basic arithmetics (+ - * / %) to preserve IVness/UVness if + both arguments are IVs/UVs replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN) automate testing with large parts of CPAN - Unicode collation? + Unicode collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ + turn Cwd into an XS module? (Configure already probes for getcwd()) + mmap for speeding up input? (Configure already probes for the mmap family) + sendmsg, recvmsg? (Configure doesn't probe for these but the units exist) + setitimer, getitimer? (the units exist) Ongoing keep filenames 8.3 friendly, where feasible |